Drunk pilot, "no occifer, Aye nevah sawr the wee man in red soot and those dearz."
Posted on 08/19/2005 2:36:22 PM PDT by sionnsar
A Dozy pilot flew his plane for two hours before he noticed that five-and-a-half feet of one wing had been torn off by a tree on take-off. The Irish pilot told investigators he thought he had been "struck by a little bird" on takeoff in his five-seater Cessna 210.
But despite two of the three passengers being top flight engineers on their way to fix a Boeing 767, no one noticed that half the left wing, containing one fuel tank, was missing. The unnamed pilot was forced to make an emergency landing at Jersey International Airport two hours later after he finally spotted the fuel gauge plummeting towards empty.
The drama unfolded as the Cessna took off from Brittas House Airstrip, 18 miles east of Shannon in Ireland last Friday.
As the small aircraft - bound for Lisbon in Portugal - left the runway it collided with treetops which ripped off a 5ft 7ins section of the left wing. The fuel tank was later found on the ground - back in Ireland.
Jersey International Airport was alerted and air traffic controllers guided the damaged plane to safety.
A spokesman for the airport said: "We were amazed it had managed to fly as long as it had, it was in a real state when it came in.
"The pilot was the most shocked of us all as he had not realised the extent of the damage while he was flying."
Here's another pic...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005380500,00.html
Very easily could have been 4 fatalities here. What we have here is a horrible pilot. I would never fly with him again.
that's what i thought too... specially since it looks like it says China on it.
I still wonder WHAT that picture is!
707_barrel_roll.jpg ? I can't visualize this .
Well, if nothing else I would think his right leg would have been getting tired of having to keep the rudder pedal on the firewall.
"Alcohol may have been involved"
"may have"? LOL "had to be"
Drunk pilot, "no occifer, Aye nevah sawr the wee man in red soot and those dearz."
"That's not damaged. This is damaged!"
The B-17 "All American" (414th Squadron, 97BG) flown by Lieutenant Kenneth R. Bragg, its tail section almost severed by a collision with an enemy fighter, flew 90 minutes back to its home base, landed safely and broke in two after landing.
1st Lt. Lawrence DeLancey managed to get his B-17 back to England after a direct hit by flak killed two of his crew over Cologne, Germany.
It's a pretty well known story. Back when the 707 was new, a Boeing test pilot with a bunch of engineers on board were doing a test/demonstration flight over a bunch of muckety mucks from the airlines. The pilot wanted to show how durable the plane was so, without any permission or warning, he did a barrel roll. The pic was snapped out the window by one of the engineers.
Boeing test pilot took the first 707 (dash 80) out over a lake near Seattle and did a barrel roll. There are movies of it taken from the ground and that picture was taken from the inside.
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The C210 has yaw trim. You have to trim a lot of right rudder for takeoff. You normally have to re-adjust after takeoff.
He may have left it in the takeoff trim. (you trim to feel, not to a specific setting)
My first thought: Someone used a NAVCOMP to figure out how long it would take to get the alcohol out of their system.
With all the drag of wreckage on the left side and the differential lift on the right hand side, you could trim that out without using rudder??
"Dozy" or "Dopey"?
Doozy
It has a trim tab on the rudder that is controlled by an adjustment wheel.
Adjusting the trim wheel is the same as pushing the rudder pedal. You just trim until the required pressure goes away.
NOW I see it --- upside down view! It's been 35 years since I took all those damned PLC-A exams - I passed the tests but later dropped out.
I wonder if they still use those pictures? - they gave me a headache.
I remember seeing it in the Saturday evening post, or somewhere. I've seen references to it in accident lists within the last year, so I know I'm not imagining something from my childhood.
The maintnenance guy is taking a break?
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